According to Trump, his plan will "ensure our veterans get the care
they needwherever and whenever they need it," "support the whole
veteran" by treating both their physical and mental health needs and
"make the VA great again by firing the corrupt and incompetent VA
executives who let our veterans down."

Trump promises an increase in funding for PTSD
and suicide prevention services, increased funding for job training,
incentives for companies that hire vets and working with non-profits
that already work with vets to find employment opportunities.

The Trump VA plan also provides a focus on female vets, who Trump says exemplify some of this "new generation of veterans."

In the eyes of the real estate
mogul-turned-politician, Trump's plan requires managerial prowess — a
skill that he frequently touts as one that only he possesses in a
saturated Republican primary field.

"It's time we have to say it," he told the Virginia crowd, "I like Ben Carson. But there's no way he can fix this, folks."

Trump has hit Carson on his ability to manage
before, saying that Carson's tax plan for a flat tax across the board
would grow agencies like the IRS — a move that Trump explains would
increase bureaucratic red tape.

In his plan, Trump also bucked the idea that throwing money at problems in the VA would work.

Trump, in a rally next to the battleship Wisconsin, said he’d root
out incompetence and corruption in the Department of Veterans Affairs,
firing anyone who stood in the way of reforms he promised would give
vets more choices and faster treatment for injuries and illnesses.

Several thousand turned out for the speech at the spot where 2012
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney introduced Paul Ryan as his
running mate. The current GOP frontrunner crowed that he’d been told his
appearance drew a lot more people.

It wasn’t the only boast from the billionaire businessman and reality-TV celebrity during the nearly 90-minute speech.

He said he’d use his negotiating skills and unpredictability to
rewrite U.S. relations with Iran and China, which he said have run
roughshod over weak U.S. negotiators. “I mean, you can’t blame China if
we have people that are incompetent representing us.”

Trump repeated his promise to build a wall to quell illegal
immigration – and make Mexico foot its multibillion-dollar cost. He
pledged to cut new trade deals to bring jobs back from overseas. And he
said he intends to spend more on defense. “We are going to build our
military so big and so strong and so powerful that we’re not going have
to use it, most likely.”

Hampton Roads radio show host Steve Batton emceed the rally. Gary
Byler, a Virginia Beach lawyer, GOP activist and former state House
candidate, was introduced as Trump’s Hampton Roads chair. Virginia Beach
School Board member Carolyn Weems spoke and endorsed Trump.

About 40 vets, recruited from the crowd by rally organizers, stood on stage behind Trump throughout the speech.

Among them was Toby Yarbrough, a retired Army sergeant from
Chesapeake who said the rally was the first political event he’d
attended.

Yarbrough, who was disabled in a heavy-equipment accident while
serving in Iraq in 2002, brought his service dog, a German shepherd
named Duke. He said he found Trump’s penchant for political
incorrectness refreshing. “We need more nonpoliticians to run our
country. So many politicians have their hands in our pockets, it’s
pitiful.”

A handful of protesters stood at the entrance of the event in opposition to Trump’s immigration proposals.

Trump shot to the top of the polls shortly after his announcement
speech in June, which drew widespread media attention for comments about
Mexican immigrants, and he has remained first in most polls since
then.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the two
GOP establishment candidates closest to Trump in polls, have had
difficulty gaining ground. Trump’s attacks on Bush as a “low-energy
person” are credited with helping dampen his well-financed campaign.

[Ed. note: It's unlikely "lawmakers" will block this. From Reuters version: "Lawmakers have 15 days to block the sale, although such action is rare." There's no reason for congress to exist. Both political parties want the Executive branch to dominate. Media reports of "gridlock" are to fool the peasants into thinking either "side" cares about them.]

Methodology This Harris Poll was conducted online within the United Statesbetween October 14 and 19, 2015 among
2,225 adults(aged 18 and over). Figures for age, sex, race/ethnicity,
education, region and household income were weighted where necessary to
bring them into line with their actual proportions in the population.
Propensity score weighting was also used to adjust for respondents'
propensity to be online.All
sample surveys and polls, whether or not they use probability sampling,
are subject to multiple sources of error which are most often not
possible to quantify or estimate, including sampling error, coverage
error, error associated with nonresponse, error associated with question
wording and response options, and post-survey weighting and
adjustments. Therefore, The Harris Poll avoids the words "margin of
error" as they are misleading. All that can be calculated are different
possible sampling errors with different probabilities for pure,
unweighted, random samples with 100% response rates. These are only
theoretical because no published polls come close to this ideal.Respondents
for this survey were selected from among those who have agreed to
participate in Harris Poll surveys. The data have been weighted to
reflect the composition of the adult population. Because the sample is
based on those who agreed to participate in our panel, no estimates of
theoretical sampling error can be calculated.".........................

The same complaint had come from Bush campaign manager Danny Diaz,
though Bush spokesperson Tim Miller said he was not aware of the
encounter between the RNC officials and CNBC. The source familiar with
the encounter said Spicer and Walsh did not bring up any other
candidates.

Comment: More proof if needed that the Republican Party doesn't exist. The group using the name is merely a group of bloodsuckers. The Democrat party is the only functioning political party in the US. What an embarrassment for the United States.

“I will be
the greatest jobs president – and I say it – that God ever created,” he
said. “We have 93 million people in our workforce. Many of them want to
work and they can’t get a job. It’s like incredible because jobs are
leaving.”

Trump added that China has been taking advantage of the United States, something he promised to stop if elected.

Steve Tate, 71, of Reno, said he thought Trump was focused more on issues than previous times he’s heard the candidate speak.

“He
really focused on substantive matters,” he said. “I don’t think he did
as well as he thought he did last night (in the debate), but I thought
he did a heck of a job today.”

Alese McMurty, a 19-year-old University of Nevada, Reno student, said all Trump offered her was empty rhetoric.

“He
goes on and on about himself about how he’s so great and he’s going to
create all these jobs, but he doesn’t say how he’s going to create all
these jobs,” she said. “I thought it was lacking in concrete policy.”

“I
supported (John) McCain. [Trump was a McCain bundler]. Now he had a hard time (in 2008) because with
what was happening was pretty tough. I say Abraham Lincoln maybe
couldn’t have done it,” he said.

“I supported (Mitt) Romney and he let
us down (in 2012). He just let us down because that was an election that
should’ve been won. So I supported McCain, I supported Romney and now
I’m saying to hell with it, I’m doing it myself."...

(continuing): "He also reserved
criticism for the media, particularly CNBC for what he described as bad
debate moderation and Politico for what he said was dishonest coverage
around his poll numbers and a recent event in Iowa.

Retired
neurosurgeon Ben Carson overtook Trump in several national polls
recently, but he said that was being blown out of proportion by the
media. Trump added the size of the crowds at his rallies were proof his
campaign was not losing steam."...

[Ed. note: Not sure which "several national polls" author references.]

(continuing): "“I was a little below Carson,” he
said. “It was the biggest story I’ve ever seen. It was true. It
happened. It was bigger than anything – it was bigger than Benghazi with
Hillary (Clinton).”

Tate said this was a natural reaction from a candidate known for being boisterous.

“People
hear about him and the polls start climbing,” Tate said. “Now he’s got
to get a lot more substance or he’s going to go down. I think he
realizes it but he won’t admit it.”

Overall, Gail Pfeiffer, 67, of
Sparks, said she enjoyed the Trump rally, especially since it offered a
chance to hear him in more than just sound bites.

Marjie
Faust, 70, of Reno, said she was pleased with the end result, but
thought Trump focused too much on himself and his accomplishments in the
beginning before talking about policy and answering questions.

“I
was put off at first,” she said. “I never felt strongly because we’ve
always gotten promises. I know he’s a celebrity. Ronald Reagan was a
celebrity, but this gentleman has a different way of coming across, so
I’m just going to wait and see.”"

Third image from Reno Gazette-Journal: "Republican
presidential candidate Donald Trump greets his supporters after
speaking during a campaign rally at the Nugget Hotel and Casino in
Sparks on Oct. 29, 2015. (Photo: Jason Bean)"..........

You know why? Because they said, "John Kasich! Finally a Republican
who shows he has a heart. Finally there's a Republican running for
president who shows that he cares about people." And that's because of
whatKasich said about expanding welfare, expanding entitlements,
embracing and accepting gay marriage and all people and whatever they
do, because we must love them.The media melted, and they thought that
Kasich was gonna run away with it. And Kasich hasn't gotten beyond
whatever he is: Three, four, maybe five percent.

I'm
sure Governor Kasich thinks he's got maybe the best record as a
governor in the state of Ohio, and I'm sure he believed what the
Drive-Bys said after the first debate, and I'm sure he expected those
kinds of things to be said based on the opinions he gave. And yet all
of that has not manifested itself in any kind of upward movement, and
he's understandably frustrated. And now he's out wondering: What the
heck happened to our party? What happened to us conservatives? What's
gone wrong? What has happened to our party? Two sound bites. Here's the first one. This is in Westerville, Ohio, yesterday at a campaign event.KASICH: I've about had it with these people! We got one candidate
that says that we ought to abolish Medicare and Medicaid. You ever
heard of anything so crazy as that, telling our people in this country
who are seniors or about to be seniors that we're gonna abolish Medicaid
and Medicare? We got one person saying we ought to have a 10% flat tax
that will drive up the -- the deficit in this country by trillions of
dollars that my daughters will spend the rest of their lives having to
pay off. You know, what I say to them is, "Why don't we have no taxes?
Just get rid of them all and then a chicken in every pot on top of it!"RUSH: Right. So the frustration is settling in because the
"compassion" play isn't seeming to work. Kasich, the compassion play
was gonna work. John Kasich was gonna show it. A lot of other
Republicans who said they believe in "compassionate conservatism," but
John Kasich was gonna demo it. And he did. And it isn't working. And so
now he's lashing out. Now as best I can tell, I didn't know we had
anybody who wants to abolish Medicare and Medicaid. The closest I can
find is Ben Carson saying that he would like to gut Medicare.But
I can't find anybody else that said they wanted to gut both of them.
But Ben Carson has said that he wanted to cut Medicare. "We got one
person saying we ought to have a 10% flat tax that'll drive up the
deficit in this country by trillions of dollars." No, the Republicans
in the Congress, Governor Kasich, are doing that. You don't need to
worry about raising the national debt. The Republicans in Congress, your
buddies (sigh), they're helping the Democrats do that. Tax cuts, see?
In these guys' minds, tax cuts -- you keeping more of your money --
that's the danger! Governor Kasich's wondering what happened to the
conservative movement.
Yeah. (chuckling) We've been asking that for quite a while of people like him.
BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: Does anybody remember who's actually gutted Medicare? Can you
say the name Barack Hussein Obama? Remember the $700 billion Obama cut
from Medicare to take that money and spend it on Obamacare, and then
they double counted it? If anybody's gutted Medicare, it's Obama. Now,
here's the next Kasich bite. This one's aimed at Trump. These first
two comments are aimed at Ben Carson, who is in the lead. Kasich's
upset at Carson, thinks he's saying crazy stuff. This is aimed at
Trump.
KASICH: (shouting) We know one guy that says we ought to take 10 or
11 million people and pick 'em up. I don't know where... We're gonna go
in their homes, their apartments?We're gonna pick 'em up and we're
gonna take 'em to the border and scream at 'em to get out of our
country? That's crazy. That is just crazy. We got people proposing
health care reform that's gonna leave, I believe, millions of people
without adequate health insurance. What has happened to our party? What has happened to the conservative movement?RUSH:
Exactly right, Governor. You used to be a ranking member in the
conservative movement. People without health insurance? Who the hell
did that, Governor? Barack Obama! Obamacare. You signed onto it!
Obamacare has left people without coverage. Obamacare has made it
unaffordable. The premiums have skyrocketed. This ticks me off! I
can't tell you how this ticks me off. The premiums have skyrocketed. The deductibles are so high, people are never gonna be able to get to
the deductible.They're never gonna get treated! The enrollment rates are way below
what was necessary as stated by Obama. Obama destroyed the health care
system! We used to have a conservative movement that Kasich used to be a
member of that was trying to stop this kind of stuff. But it doesn't
exist anymore. And the people running for president understand that we
need somebody that's gonna stand up to this stuff rather than agree with
it and go along with it under the guise that we can do it smarter or
make it better or what have you.And if you don't understand how illegal immigration is perceived by
the people in this country as the single greatest thing that could
destroy it as it was founded, then you are more out of touch with people
who vote for the president in this country than I can possibly
believe....
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RUSH: Governor Kasich, with all due respect, have you ever heard of
Dwight Eisenhower? Dwight Eisenhower was a famous Republican president,
famous general. Dwight Eisenhower deported millions of people in this
country. We didn't have immigration in this country from 1924 to 1965.
Eisenhower deported a bunch of people that were not assimilating. We
used to do immigration the right way. Does everybody forget we're
talking about illegal immigration here? We're not talking about --
which is bad enough as it is.Do these people not know the numbers I cited to you yesterday:
By the year 2022, an additional 12 million legal immigrants will be
here? And everybody applauds that, claps their hands. "Yeah, yeah,
'cause we're a nation of immigrants. Yeah, yeah, right cool." Okay,
fine. We're talking about illegals! But we've deported people
throughout our nation's history. It isn't anything new. But, look: "We
got people proposing health care reform that can leave millions of
people without adequate health insurance"?Who is already doing that? Barack Obama! The Affordable Care Act!And everybody knew this is exactly what was gonna happen before it
was signed into law. This is why everybody opposed it. It was based on
a bunch of lies. It was no way gonna give health insurance to
everybody. It was no way gonna be free. It was no way gonna be
cheaper. It was no way gonna be everybody's gonna get more health
treatment than they ever have had before. There was no way it was gonna
improve because it was not constructed that way. Now we have people
who are forced to pay fines if they don't have health insurance, and the
fines are cheaper than what it would be to buy health insurance?What do you think people are gonna do, particularly young people who
are healthy? How about the statistic that half of the people in this
country earn less than $30,000? We have got serious problems here that
have been created by the Democrat Party. The last seven years of Barack
Obama have been an absolute disaster economically, socially, and
culturally. And what we've had is Republicans afraid to stand up to any
of it. They go along with it and then try to get accolades and pats on
the back for being compassionate.This is why there's a disconnect between the Republican Party and its
own elected officials. This is why there is now a Republican
establishment that does not like having all this opposition called the
conservative movement. "What happened to the conservative movement?"
The Republican Party's trying to destroy it, Governor Kasich. It's too
uncomfortable; it's too much of a nuisance. Want to talk about gutting
health care? Try Barack Obama: $700 billion drained from the program in
order to fund this boondoggle called Obamacare.
And
everybody knows Medicare is headed for collapse like everything else
is. We're $19 trillion in debt! Half the people of this country make
under $30,000 a year. How in the world are we gonna have any kind of a
tax base that can support anywhere near the kind of economic growth that
we need? And it's not just me speculating that Medicare's headed for
collapse. The government tells us every different day, and then the
next day they tell us Social Security's headed for collapse. At one
point, it's going to be true.We have the Baby Boomers who can't afford to retire, who want their
Social Security. We've got a bunch of Gen X, Gen Y Millennials who have
no desire to pay for 'em. They're barely able to find career-oriented
jobs themselves. I don't know what's been proposed to deal with any of
this by any of these people worried about the collapse. John Kasich's
governor of Ohio. He expanded Medicaid in his state. Compassionate
move. Cost is skyrocketing, as you would expect. You expand an
entitlement, what the hell do you think, it's gonna get cheaper?You expand an entitlement, you put more people in the entitlement,
put more people on the rolls, and somehow you're reducing costs?No,
but you're really being "compassionate," showing you have a big heart
and you love people. (snorts) And then after we expand the entitlement,
then all these guys that do that, they tell us how humane it was.
"Yes, it was the humane thing to do! I'm not one of those mean
Republicans. I have a heart. I have compassion. I support an
expanding entitlement."It's been expanded to now include able-bodied young people, and it's
also dropped the requirement to work in order to receive the benefit.
What do you expect is gonna happen when you make freeloading easy? And
then you call it compassionate! And if you don't like the term
"freeloading," let's look at it the other way around: What has happened
that makes all of these costs impossible for people to bear on their
own? Who's responsible for that? Who is it that meddles in virtually
every little thing? Do you know what happened?

Where's
conservatism gone? I'll tell you where it is. We see a story that the
donor class wants illegal immigrants 'cause they're cheaper to pay.
You know what conservatives say? "No, no, no! That's not right. We
believe in boundless opportunity. We believe in people showing up,
working hard, educating themselves, using their ambition. We believe in
people getting raises! We believe in people finding great jobs, great
careers, increasing their pay, their wages, their standard of living.
That's what conservatism stands for. To make that happen, you get
government out of the way.You turn people loose pick up you have faith in 'em. You trust
'em. You trust 'em, their ambition and their desire, the fact that they
love their families and that they want to improve the lives of those
that they support. We trust individuals to do the best for themselves,
and that will raise everybody. We do not think people are incapable,
incompetent, and need a government program in order to get through the
day. But when you create all these entitlements, all these government
programs and then you import 12 million, 20 million, whatever it is
people that are not qualified to earn more than the minimum wage, what
do you think is gonna happen to wages?"What do you think is gonna happen to incomes? And the whole idea of
people being self-supporting vanishes." The conservative movement
looks at the news every day in this country and weeps, cringes, and
cries. Half the country is making $30,000 a year! Full-time work has
now been reduced to part-time work so that people do not have to provide
health care, and all of this is 'cause nobody can afford any of it.
The proof that nobody can afford any of it is that we're $19 trillion in
debt giving it away.We can't afford it, period. We don't have the money to do any of
this "compassionate" stuff. Take a look Europe. You want to see
"compassion"? The Europeans are filled with it. The Europeans are
filled with all kinds of generational guilt, and so now all these people
from all over the world want to better their lives and come to Europe.
They said, "Come on in@ We're good people!" And now they're searching
for guns. Yeah, there's no Second Amendment in the EU. People that
live there now looking for guns because they're being overrun. The
problem is, they can't find guns. They're not legal.Now
leaders in European country after European country are doing everything
they can to try to resurrect deportation laws because they can't handle
the influx. Because it's not refugees and it's not migrants; it's an
invasion. But the good people of Europe, the leaders, the sophisticated
elites fail to see anything other than what they thought was their own
compassion on display, their own big-heartedness. Millions of people
unable to get health care, and somehow this is the fault of the
conservative movement? Somehow this is the fault of people running for
president, who haven't had a thing to do with Obamacare?...There's not one Republican running for president that could
be blamed for the structure and the operational joke that is
Obamacare. Most of, but not all, the people running for president want
to fix it. At some point, though, we're either gonna realize we can't
afford all of these entitlements and all of this give-away, and we're
also gonna realize how we're destroying people's futures by expanding
all these programs, by denying people the dignity of their own ambition
and desire and achievement. That's where the conservative movement is,
but you don't find any of this in Washington. You don't hear any of
this in Washington. None of it.
What you hear in Washington is the things I just said to you are
troublesome. They're mean-spirited, extreme, and they're just
undesirable. When in fact those of us who want the best for people
actually are the ones with compassion. We are the ones who actually do
love people. We're the ones who actually do want the best for people,
and we understand that government cannot, will not, never has, done
that.
BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: Have you heard about what's going on at Walt Disney?
Walt Disney is importing new workers, legal immigrants, H1B visas.
When I first heard about this, I didn't understand it. I didn't
understand why Zuckerberg and these guys are running around pro-legal
immigration expansion, until I figured out what was going on. They want
recent graduates, high skilled, high GPA graduates from foreign
countries. They want to employ them because they are cheaper than it is
to hire Americans of the same qualifications, same experience.At
Disney, you know what's happening? Current employees are being forced
to train the immigrants who are going to replace them at half, often,
what they are being paid. And Disney employees are finally speaking up
about it. The same thing's gonna happen at Facebook. The same thing is
gonna happen wherever you have a high-tech wizard demanding that we
expand immigration. They're looking for cheap labor. They want the
same qualifications. They want the wizards of smart in the tech world.
They want the brightest geeks they can get. They just don't want the
geeks that can demand wages that are at present being paid....Workers around the world make less than
Americans do, and you can't compete globally if your labor costs are
higher. This leads me to another problem. What's wrong in all of this
immigration is a really out-of-focus focus. Milton Friedman, was he
crazy, Governor Kasich? Was Milton Friedman crazy? Milton Friedman
said you cannot have open immigration and a massive welfare state. The
two together will destroy an economy.
Here's what I mean, by focus. When did this go wrong?When it comes
to immigration, when did it matter what foreigners want, more than what
Americans want? When did that begin? Because when it comes to
immigration, the issue is not what foreigners want or what foreigners
demand. The issue is what do Americans want. This is the United States
of America and the people we elect and represent us in Washington are
supposed to represent us. This is what's missing. They don't anymore.
They are representing people who are not citizens. They are standing
up for people who are not citizens.They're not standing up for the American people who elect them
anymore. As such, we don't have a representative government. We have a
government governing against the will of the people. The will of the
people is universally opposed. The Republican-Democrat Party policy on
just this one issue, immigration, but there are others. Governor Kasich
and Governor Christie and Jeb Bush and whoever falls in line here that
foreigners and immigrants are far more important to America's future
than Americans are. They spend all of this time telling us about the
plight of foreigners. I realize foreigner is a dirty word, we're not
supposed to say that. Okay. They tell us about the plight of people
who live in Mexico, in El Salvador, and other poor nations around the
world.We have to hear about that. We know that. It's not our fault. We
somehow, though, are gonna be blamed or punished or what have you. It's
our responsibility somehow to change their circumstances, and we get to
hear about how immigration's an act of love. Yes, it's what Jeb says.
These immigrants, they love America. Oh, we don't? This has nothing
to do, none of that, what the immigrants want, what the illegals want,
what Jorge Ramos wants, nothing to do with what is supposed to be the
basis of a nation's immigration policy....The
issue is what American citizens want and desire, and they express that
by virtue of elections.The
United States is here as a country not to provide benefits for the rest
of the world. The way that happens is by building and growing the
strongest America possible, creating boundless riches, boundless
economic activity and creating revenue growth like we haven't seen, and
that's how we help the world. We don't help the world by getting rid of
our borders and saying, "Come on in."That destroys the engine of the
greatest country ever. And the fact that people we have elected are
seeking that solution is why there is so much opposition to Washington,
DC, today.
I have to take another break because I'm up against it on time. We'll be back.
BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: In the case of Disney, what they are doing, they're replacing
highly technical IT workers who make around a hundred grand a year with
foreign workers who make less than 60, plus the savings in payroll tax.
They don't have to pay payroll tax for the three years they hire these
people. And the people making a hundred, who have the jobs currently,
are having to train their replacements."
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